Ahh VAX, you unweildy behemoth, we meet again. Sad thing is, I work for a school district and VAX was still the main backbone of the data infrastructure until about 3 years ago.

Your metaphor is actually quite apt here. In your scenario, the patient(China) is going to you, a board certified M.D.(Google). You'll provide the best service under your own code of ethics that you can. However, the patient wants to have a dangerous, or unethical treatment performed on him. You refuse and he responds by telling you he will go to the unlicensed mob doctor(Bauidu) who will perform the procedure. It is still unethical for you (Google) to do a "little harm" even to prevent the patient from disregarding your advice and being badly harmed by the other guy.

If you make your stand on being ethical, then bending your ethics even to do good is a slippery slope that leads to moral relativism and "ends justify the means" type thinking.

~Dorothy Parker

That's nothing! In my day we had to listen to the town crier describe web pages to us!

That's nothing! I once saw an AC who didn't understand hyperbole!

Sure the time wasted is fairly inconsequential, but you must agree that the dedicated server model does make the whole clan based system easier.

TF2 uses dedicated servers and allows server side mods. Therefore, votebans and votekicks are simple to use and many times don't even need an admin online to work properly.

MF2 however doesn't use dedicated servers, any one player is actually hosting the "server" on their machine. The problem (well, A problem) with that is that there is no Server admin or other person in control of the back end of the game, so if the automated systems don't pick up the cheats, the players have no recourse to expel the cheater(s).

Its actually $30, but there are a great number of PS3 games that are in the Greatest Hits series.

Also, PSP Greatest Hits do go for $19.99.

I"m 5033.6 multiples of my height from the hospital I was born in.

That is of course as the crow flies, not as the car drives.

More accurately, it was Chernobyl, The film "the China Syndrome" and to a much much lesser extent, Three Mile Island. Reinforced strongly by the "Nuclear Power = Nuclear Weapons" sentiment.

I reject your plan on the basis that there is no

X) PROFIT!!!!!

step.

Please amend your plan accordingly.

It's funny, I've been running adblock+ so long that just yesterday I was wondering to myself why modern web pages have so much unused whitespace nowdays, took me a minute to realize that thats where the ads would go.

If you need that stuff, that's great. However my shop prints nothing but single sided database reports on single sided legal paper. Many other offices are similar. I have a fancy pants color laser that does 40PPM and double sided here, however the HP LJ4000 is what sits on my desk because its reliable, rock solid and if the toner gets streaky, I just pull the cartridge, give it a hearty shake, and *POW* like magic, the printer prints just fine for hundreds more pages.

Mine aren't as old, but I have about 5 Laserjet 4000s that they can have when they pry them from my cold, dead hands.

I've always found it odd that HP used to make printers that got thousands of pages per $80 cartridge, that you could literally drop on the floor and they'd keep on chugging happily away, but now the P2015dn set I've got now gets less than 3000 pages per $150, loses network connectivity randomly, and flat out refuses to run once the chip decides I'm "out" of toner.

Many of my non IT co-workers wonder why I always paw through the e-waste trash heap before it goes to the recyclers, but I've managed to bring 2 old workhorse laser printers back from the dead that way.

It amazes me how some teachers are just unable to admit they don't know an answer.

My 8th grade algebra teacher was pretty awesome though. He had printed pi out on dot matrix paper in "banner" orientation so that it ran the entire perimeter of his classroom along the top of the wall. If I remember correctly (its been a while) it was to 500 places or so. That really intrigued me, especially when he told us the first day of class that pi goes on and on and on past what he had posted.